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From: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] only irq-safe atomic ops
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:06:48PM -0700, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

> With preemption this turns into a problem that is easier to solve
> with a lock or by not having per-cpu caches in the first place -- 

whilst you're correct (pre-emption has made everything harder), there's
not much point moaning about it, since it's in linus' kernel now. So 
why bother ?

regards
john

-- 
"Oh dear, more knobs."
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